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(5 hours ago)PhilHos Wrote: Tell me you don't know what coaches do for a team without telling me you don't know what coaches do for a team.
Is it the players that put the team together? Is it the players that created the playbook in the offseason? Is it the players that create the gameplan each week? Is it the players that call the plays? Is it the players that decide when to go for it on 4th down or to go for the 2 point conversion? Is it the players that keep the team focused during adversity (ok, maybe this one they do play a part)?
I could go on but this notion that a bad coach can be a coach of a winning team because of the players is just preposterous, IMO. Yes, Burrow and Jamar certainly make Zac's job easier and maybe even make him look better than he actually is, but to claim that the coach is being carried by the players just shows a fundamental lack of football knowledge.
I'm not so sure. I mean look at Lou his scheme will work if you have the right players to operate it. I feel like Zimmer put together better defense with less or equal talent than we have now. All teams or offenses need talent but Taylor had no success until he got Burrow and 2 good wide receivers. I think Taylor is underrated for his route concepts. But it all depends on the players being talented enough to get open and Burrow reading it. Then you add in his continued terrible situational football calls and it makes everything harder on the team.
